The book cover of "How to Lose Your Mother" and author Molly Jong-Fast. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Marilyn Minter) The book explores Jong-Fast's troubled relationship with her mother, "Fear ...

Erica Jong, author of "Fear of Flying," at her daughter Molly Jong-Fast's 2000 book signing for "Normal Girl" in New York City. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images) You probably know Molly Jong-Fast from the ...

Molly Jong-Fast did not want to write “a book like this.” What kind of book is that? One that tells “the story of what happens when the bottom falls out, when all the tests come back bad, when the ...

In the memoir “How to Lose Your Mother,” Molly Jong-Fast recalls a tumultuous upbringing as the only child of the feminist writer Erica Jong. By A. Cerisse Cohen A. Cerisse Cohen received her M.F.A.

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